10 NOVEMBER 1973, Page 5

Abortion

Sir: Mrs M. Simm's concern for women (Letters, November 3) is admirable until one realises that approximately one-half of the 156,000 babies killed every year as the intended victims of abortion are girls. The debit for these _deaths goes to Mrs Simms and her Mends. It will, no doubt, be claimed by tha abortion lobby that babies in the womb are not persons. However, I suspect that it is psychologically necessary for those who wish to kill Members of a particular group in the community first to deny their existence as persons. Did the Nazis consider that the German Jews were per

Alan Smith

83 Ferguson Avenue, Romdord